Bjorlanda / Björlanda / Björland / Bjorland

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: with two leafy ends at the front -- the stone object right above is the insert that fits into the drainage mini-basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F4] [accessed 31 December 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - zoomorphic

Scene Description: this end is shaped like a lion head

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F4] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - zoomorphic

Scene Description: this end is shaped like a bird head

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F4] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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human figure - male - head - crowned - vegetation stemming from the mouth

Scene Description: a variation on the Green Man on the east side of the font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F4] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: the drainage mini-basin seen here without the insert

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F4] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2005 by Henrik Riomar [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Björlanda_Kyrka-01.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the detached bell-cote partially visible on the left

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph taken by Henryk Cornell, in Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?text=Björlanda+kyrka&sida=8&referens=raa/bbr/21400000200819] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is visible in the chancel, right [south] side -- Source caption: "Björlanda kyrka. Interiör [...] Björlanda. Björlanda Sn. Torslanda." "B. Ka. Dopfunten av täljsten fr. ca. 1250 av västkustmäst. Torbilius. Altarskåp fr. ca. 1500-talet."

Image Source: digital image of an undated postcard Fotografering av Träff, Carl Alfred, in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?text=Björlanda+dopfunt&referens=bhm/photo/UMFA53263:5849] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of church interior - north wall - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "Målning på kyrkans norra vägg, fjärde ringen från väster. Efter restaurering. Plåten trasig".

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1936 by Axel Forssén, in Riksantikvarieämbetet [www.kringla.nu/kringla/sok?text=Björlanda+kyrka&referens=raa/bbr/21400000443289&sida=7] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908: 62)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878)

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Björlanda kyrka [...] Dopfunt av täljsten. Omkring 1250, av Torbillus. Teckning i Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek, nr. 57 (58). Teckningen signerad G. B., Gustaf Brusewitz."

Image Source: digital image [624-51.TIF] of an undate drawing [nr. 57 (58)] by Gustaf Brusewitz in Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek, nr. 57 (58) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Björlanda_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200006221.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing a separate drawing of the drainage mini-basin

Image Source: digital image of an 1860 drawing in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?text=Björlanda+dopfunt&referens=raa/kmb/16000200006210] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the round baptismal dish stands behind the font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Kontakta ATA in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?text=Björlanda+dopfunt&referens=raa/kmb/16000200006217] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: displayed here without the insertable drainage mini-basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Kontakta ATA in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?text=Björlanda+dopfunt&referens=raa/kmb/16000200006215] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing also the insertable drainage mini-basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Kontakta ATA in Kringla [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?text=Björlanda+dopfunt&referens=raa/kmb/16000200006211] [accessed 31 December 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05639BJO

Church/Chapel: Björlanda kyrka

Church Location: Björlanda kyrkväg 30, 423 61 Torslanda, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 31 731 90 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located 8-10 km NW of Göteborg, on the island of Hisingen

Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift

Historical Region: Västra Hisings härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE side, by the pulpit

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Thorkillus workshop / Thorkillusgruppen [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: The fonts at nearby Säve [Säfve], and the one at Nun Monkton, in Yorkshire [cf. Font notes below]. Drake gives the fonts at Säve and the one at Rolfstorp, all three of the workshop of Master Thorkillus

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878), as one of three fonts in this area known to have an auxiliary drainage mini-basin at the lower base. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as one of two Swedish baptismal fonts [the other one mentioned in Bond is Säfve [i.e., Säve] that have "a small cup-like hollow containing a drain at the base of the font, and in it is a small vessel which could be taken out and used to receive the drippings, which then would be poured into the hollow at the base of the font". Bond (ibid.) gives the font at Nun Monkton in Yorkshire, as an English font that "has a small hollow in precisely this position". Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1961) as a baptismal font made of soapstone by Master Thorkillus, the basin decorated with an acanthus vine stemming from the mouth of a crowned variant of a Green Man's head. Drake (2002) describes it as one of three fonts -Säve and Rolfstorp are the others- from the workshop of Master Thorkillus. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930708F4] as a baptismal font of the Thorkillusgruppen made of soapstone ca. 1200. The font consists of a cylindrical basin with rounded underbowl, a cylindrical stem and a round lower base. The basin is decorated with a crownwd human head with an acanthus vine stemming from its mouth and curling into multiple scrolls that end in animal head shapes (lion, bird, etc.); the underbowl is decorated with a pattern of very broad rib-like shapes all around, and a roll moulding below; the round lower base has a moulding in the shape of a plain vine with leafy ends; in the front of the lower base, just above the foliated motif mentioned above, is a small hemispherical depression with a drain hole in its centre; it taken a carved insert that appears to be original [unconfirmed] and can be removed at will. The font has no cover now but one made of wood does appear in an old undated photograph [cf. Images area]; a metal baptismal dish is used on the font now.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.761285, 11.824794

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 45′ 40.63″ N, 11° 49′ 29.26″ E

UTM: 32V 668052 6405639

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: [cf. Font notes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: plain and flat [disappeared?]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961

Swann, E., "Fonts of Unusual Shape, with Appendages", 1887, Proceedings of the Historical Society, 1887, pp. 67-82; r["References"]